| "And I've got one, two, three, four, five ___ working overtime" (XTC lyric) | 89 |
| "Bad politicians are __ Washington by good people who don't vote": William E. Simon | 97 |
| Brownish photo tint [Coming to avxwords.com this fall - celebrity puzzle series] | 80 |
| "In what month of pregnancy does a woman begin to look pregnant?" "___" | 91 |
| Defensive fencing positions in which the top of the blade is pointed at the opponent's knee | 95 |
| "___ is knowing that your worst shot is still pretty good": golfer Johnny Miller | 90 |
| "Hogan's Heroes" character who insisted, "I know nothing!" | 82 |
| 1973 film with the tagline "Many of his fellow officers considered him the most dangerous man alive -- an honest cop" | 127 |
| The murals at the Harvard Science Center and Rockefeller Center, for example | 76 |
| "American Progress, the Triumph of Man's Accomplishments Through Physical and Mental Labor" and "Oriental Phantasie," e.g. | 146 |
| Word with ''down,'' ''up'' or ''back'' | 86 |
| Word that "run" replaced as the OED entry with the most definitions | 77 |
| Words before ''precedent'' or ''good example'' | 78 |
| Words with ''high standard'' or ''good example'' | 80 |
| Words with ''world record'' or ''precedent'' | 76 |
| Words with ''precedent'' or ''good example'' | 76 |
| Other than Cain and Abel, the only son of Adam and Eve mentioned by name in the Bible | 85 |
| Number for soccer legend Andriy Shevchenko--at least, when he played for an Italian club | 88 |
| Brian whose Orchestra had the 1998 hit "Jump Jive an' Wail" | 73 |
| Street food magnate who failed despite having food from every continent? | 72 |
| Record for an individual athlete at a single Olympic Games that remained unbroken until 2008 | 92 |
| "The ___ of Sleep" (1860 Mordecai Cook historical survey on drug use, including marijuana) | 100 |
| Elvis's and Mariah's record number of weeks at Billboard's #1 | 73 |
| "___ needle pulling thread" ("The Sound of Music" lyric) | 76 |
| "___ needle pulling thread ..." ("The Sound of Music" lyric) | 80 |
| We, as a species, have to have it [Ink Well ends June 25 - sign up at avxwords.com to keep getting great indie xwords!] | 119 |
| Subject of a Manhattan museum near Madison Square Park whose entrance door handles are shaped like the letter X | 111 |
| "Software is like ___: it's better when it's free" (Linux inventor Linus Torvalds) | 100 |
| "I can remember when the air was clean and ___ was dirty": George Burns | 81 |
| Spinal Tap classic with the lines "Getting out my pitchfork / Poking your hay" | 88 |
| Randy Watson's overrated soul band, in "Coming to America" | 72 |
| Mr. Zog's surfboard grip product that gained notoriety by being banned from schools | 87 |
| What word precedes "Eyes," "Girl," "Love" and "Mama" in Top 40 song titles? | 115 |
| Adjective for the man who shirtlessly plays "Careless Whisper" on his saxophone in malls and grocery stores | 117 |
| Briefly, Bay Area forcE [avxwords.com has the edgiest weekly indie puzzles!] | 76 |
| "___ Fury and His Howling Commandos" (old Marvel Comics title) | 72 |
| Rock-album cover on which this puzzle's celebrities appear, familiarly | 74 |
| Advice during a solar eclipse (and a homophonic hint to uncovering this puzzle's secret image) | 98 |
| Trains, in a way, and the key to 18 of this puzzle's black squares. (Ones that begin with the keyword are asterisked. The others are for you to discover.) | 158 |
| "He's a complicated man/but no one understands him/but his woman" | 79 |
| Leader's name that's etymologically related to "chess" | 72 |
| Source of the phrases "cakes and ale" and "milk of human kindness": Abbr. | 93 |
| United Society of Believers in Christ's Second Appearing, familiarly | 72 |
| "Champagne for my real friends, real pain for my ___ friends": Tom Waits | 82 |
| 1953 film whose title character says "A gun is as good or as bad as the man using it"Â | 99 |
| U.S. defensive midfielder ejected in the semis of the 2007 Women's World Cup | 80 |
| Advice to a young Schwarzenegger: "If you want to succceed, ___!" | 75 |
| Ocean predator, of which there are five types starting this puzzle's longest answers | 88 |
| Discovery channel programming block that included "Ocean of Fear" | 75 |
| "Star Trek" actor who starred in a film shot entirely in Esperanto | 76 |
| Author who said "Democracy is a device that ensures we shall be governed no better than we deserve" | 109 |
| "A government that robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the support of Paul" speaker | 101 |
| Word after "does" and "doesn't" in an old ad slogan | 75 |
| "Now it's like 'Murder, ___ Wrote' once I get you out them clothes" (R. Kelly lyric) | 106 |
| "___ Bangs" (William Hung's "American Idol" song) | 73 |
| She joined forces with Prince during the "Purple Rain" recording sessions | 83 |
| Former Prince percussionist/singer who had a 1984 hit "The Glamorous Life" | 84 |
| He wrote the words and music for Johnny's "A Boy Named Sue" | 73 |
| Award-winning author of "The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian" | 83 |
| "___ the Man" (Amanda Bynes romcom based on "Twelfth Night") | 80 |
| Bruce Springsteen hit whose first words are "With her killer graces …" | 86 |
| LaBeouf of acting petulant and then being excused by James Franco in the New York Times | 87 |
| LaBeouf of "Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull" | 73 |
| Author of "Down Came the Rain: My Journey Through Postpartum Depression" | 82 |
| Change the condition of a fish part? (and three words that can follow BLUE and RED, but not WHITE) | 98 |
| Something that's pressed, which helps explain this puzzle's theme | 73 |
| Neil Diamond song with the lyrics "I used to call your name / when no one else would come" | 100 |
| "A device for finding furniture in the dark," according to Steven Wright | 82 |
| “Should that say ‘English,’ or will we really be reading nothing but roofing manuals in ___?” | 109 |
| Band that will change your life, according to Natalie Portman in "Garden State" | 89 |
| "Imaginary" number in a game show skit on the BBC's "That Mitchell and Webb Look" | 105 |
| Wednesday: Iggy uses stun gun during football team interview, attempting to be a ... | 84 |
| Line of greeting cards billed as "a tiny little division of Hallmark" | 79 |
| Tune also known as "It's in His Kiss" (with "The") | 74 |
| REO Speedwagon "It's time to bring this ship in to the ___" | 73 |
| Characteristic of ''fat'' but not ''fate'' | 74 |
| Some films, or, academically, what's hidden in the seven starred entries | 76 |
| He had a cameo on the Simpson's episode "Homer and Lisa Exchange Cross Words" | 91 |
| "I ___ man in Reno / just to watch him die" ("Folsom Prison Blues" line) | 92 |
| "Love ___ Brought You Home" (Toni Braxton's first solo hit) | 73 |
| "The long-awaited sequel to 'Cry, the Beloved Country'!" | 74 |
| Lame reality TV term driven into the ground by this season's "Big Brother All-Stars" | 98 |
| "Where'd'ya hang 'Water Lillies' in this museum?" | 75 |
| "Jerry Maguire" catchphrase, a hint to what's hidden in eight answers | 83 |
| Dramatic device about which Hamlet says "The play's the thing ..." | 80 |
| Explosive fragments named after the British inventor of an artillery shell containing them | 90 |
| Title film character who says "Donkey, two things, O.K.? Shut ... up!" | 80 |
| Elisabeth with a Best Actress nomination for "Leaving Las Vegas" | 74 |
| Place that it wouldn't kill you to go one of these Fridays, or maybe you think you're too important for G-d now? | 120 |
| Word with ''in,'' ''up'' or ''down'' | 84 |
| Under [like contemporary crosswords? Become an AVXWORDS.com subscriber today] | 77 |
| Documentary in which the director asks "So how much did you have to pay for the baby?" | 96 |
| Pitcher with a 168-mph fastball dreamed up by George Plimpton for the 1985 April Fools' Day issue of Sports Illustrated | 123 |
| "I Want to Hold Your Hand" through "All My Loving," on "Meet the Beatles!" | 104 |
| Where "Ice Ice Baby" appeared on the "Play That Funky Music" single | 87 |
| It's calculated based on the position of the sun relative to fixed stars, and is roughly 6 hours longer than its solar counterpart | 134 |
| Oscar-nominated movie where the main characters are chased down the street by an angry naked guy | 96 |
| "___ sind verhaftet" ("You're under arrest," in Frankfurt) | 82 |
| "___ liebt dich" ("She Loves You" rerecorded in German) | 75 |
| Lima alternative in the grocery aisle (sorry about this fill, I was sure I could fit [colander alternative in the kitchen] here) | 128 |